Migrant workers

Israel imports record foreign workforce to replace Palestinians, but housing crisis looms

Israel now has 250,000 legal and illegal foreign workers, the highest number ever, according to Israel Population and Immigration Authority figures, with more to come.

Foreign workers seen working in a field near the Ben Gurion Airport, on August 14, 2025.
Thai workers collect freshly harvested fennel near Kibbutz Alumim in southern Israel

New report shows many migrant workers lacked access to shelter during Operation Roaring Lion

Foreign workers in the construction industry with Eldad Nitzan, chairman of the foreign manpower corporations.

Israeli government under pressure to overhaul foreign worker policy

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Yad Vashem with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 26, 2026.

India, Israel agree to increase Indian foreign workers in Israel by 50,000 in the next five years


Migrant caregivers’ ‘#OurHands Campaign’

Organizations around the world are now rallying through a campaign called “Our Hands” to share information with domestic workers and encourage collective mobilization.

An African migrant worker sleeps on a bench of a bus station in south Tel Aviv

NGOs lodge appeal over policy for migrants denied refugee status

The legal decision over how to handle the issue of around 45,000 African migrants who crossed into the country illegally, but claim refugee status, is somewhat up in the air.

An African migrant holds an Israeli flag after being released from the Holot detention center in the Negev

Defending fair labor practices for migrant workers in Israel

Migrant workers in Israel originate mostly from the Philippines, India, Sri-Lanka, Nepal and Eastern Europe.

Elderly Israelis wait for their turn to vote

'Miles to go before I sleep' - On the front lines of the migration crises in Europe

The images being shown ranged from horrific stories of dead refugees suffocating in a truck while being smuggled, to Germans clapping and welcoming arrivals.

THE WRITER poses next to the fence along the Hungarian border

'Germany took our Jews and gave us Arabs,' French right-winger says

Germany has been heavily criticized by other European governments for its willingness to absorb hundreds of thousands of migrants.

Syrian refugees are reflected in a puddle as they wait for their turn to enter Macedonia at Greece's border

Tel Aviv pastor: African migrants ‘can make real contribution to society’

US Pentecostal delegation visit asylum-seekers as guests of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews

IFCJ President Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein (left) speaks with Pastor Jeremiah Sunday Dairo in south Tel Aviv

In Tel Aviv, Holot, reactions mixed on fateful High Court decision on migrants

“They now understand that they can stay here and I don’t see any of them deciding to leave on their own now,” Tel Aviv city councilman says.

Eritrean migrants in Tel Aviv.

Tragic end for Moroccan migrant who dies trying to reach Spain in suitcase

Dead man's brother arrested for murder Spanish government spokesman says.

The Spanish ferry port of Almeria

NGO: Israel forces migrants to choose between leaving for Rwanda or indefinite prison

According to Hotline for Refugees and Migrants the State has invented a new loophole so it can detain migrants indefinitely in the Saharonim closed detention center.

AFRICAN MIGRANTS sit on pipes outside Holot, a detention centre in Israel’s southern Negev desert.

Israeli NGOs battle over call for asylum for Eritrean migrants

Group says new UN Human Rights Council report doesn’t justify change in policy.

Eritrean migrants in Tel Aviv.